Idaho
Public Television will be airing the professional development workshops
from CPB/ANNENBERG throughout the school year on Friday mornings
from 1:00 a.m./midnight - 3:00/2:00 a.m. MT/PT
GRADUATE CREDIT
AVAILABLE!
2 credits are being offered through Colorado State University for
only $125 to participants who complete the appropriate requirements.
Take a class with your colleagues or from the comfort of your own
home!
Mathematics:
What’s the Big Idea?
Airs Friday mornings September 7 - October 26, 2001 during
the ITV blockfeed 1:00 a.m./midnight - 3:00/2:00 a.m. MT/PT
Contemplate questions about math and student understanding during
this eight-part workshop series. Each episode offers motivation and
tools to teachers exploring new ways of teaching and features educational
experts and classroom teachers from around the country.
Science
in Focus: Force and Motion
Airs Friday mornings November 2 - November 30, 2001
during
the ITV blockfeed 1:00 a.m./midnight - 3:00/2:00 a.m. MT/PT
Explore science concepts in force and motion and come away with a
deeper understanding that will help you engage your students in their
own explorations. Learn more about gravity, friction, air resistance,
magnetism, and tension through activities, discussions, and demonstrations.
Primary
Sources: Workshops in American History
Airs Friday mornings December 7 - December 28, 2001 during the
ITV
blockfeed 1:00 a.m./midnight - 3:00/2:00 a.m. MT/PT
In this
workshop, 12 high school history teachers explore the use of primary-source
documents in the research and interpretation of American history.
The programs focus on pivotal events from the settlement of Jamestown
to the Korean conflict and the Cold War.
In
Search of the Novel:
Airs Friday mornings, January 4, 2002 - January 25, 2002 during
the ITV
blockfeed 1:00 a.m./midnight - 3:00/2:00 a.m. MT/PT
For middle and high school educators,
this collection of eight one-hour workshops features innovative classroom
activities, interviews with contemporary novelists, and ten of the
most popular novels on school reading lists. Best of all, the series
reminds us that teaching the novel can be just plain fun!
Assessment
in Math and Science: What's the Point?
Airs Friday mornings, February 1, 2002 - March 22, 2002
during
the ITV
blockfeed 1:00 a.m./midnight - 3:00/2:00 a.m. MT/PT
Join K-12 teachers from across the country in this eight-part series
of interactive workshops on math and science assessment. Using Annenberg/CPB
video clips, participants examine current assessment issues and explore
strategies for assessment reform in their classrooms. Listen to comments
of your peers, and contribute your own questions and experiences via
the Internet.
The
Next Move: Steps Toward Change in Elementary Math and Science
Airs Friday mornings, February 1, 2002 - March 22, 2002
during
the ITV
blockfeed 1:00 a.m./midnight - 3:00/2:00 a.m. MT/PT
This
eight-part workshop for K-5 teachers explores current issues of classroom
change with the goal of helping teachers continue to move toward more
student-centered classrooms. By viewing K-5 teachers at decision-making
points in actual classroom situations, participants will have an opportunity
to consider how they might approach "next moves" given similar cirumstances.
OTHER
WORKSHOPS SERIES AVAILABLE BY REQUEST
Critical
Issues in School Reform:
Many schools and communities are adapting,
implementing, or even inventing tools to help them make real improvements
in student achievement. This series takes viewers around the country
to show teachers, parents, administrators, civic leaders, and others
collaborating on new practices in education.
Learning
Science Through Inquiry
This eight-part workshop shows inquiry teaching and learning
in action in real classrooms. Whether you have already experimented
with inquiry teaching and want to enhance your practice, or are new
to the approach, this workshop will show you how to make it work in
the classroom and how it benefits students.
Looking
at Learning...Again, Part 1
This series on learning features six leading educators and their
ideas on how students best learn mathematics and science. Through
personal interviews, teacher discussions, and actual classroom footage,
the series will encourage you to examine your beliefs about how children
learn, and to consider how these beliefs might influence your teaching.
Looking
At Learning...Again, Part 2
A sequel to Looking at Learning...Again, this series features
eight leading educators including Carne Barnett (WestEd), Marta Civil
(University of Arizona), Philip Sadler (Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics), and more. Through personal interviews, teacher
discussions, and classroom footage, the workshops will explore ideas
about teaching and learning.
The
Missing Link: Essential Concepts for Middle School Math Teachers
TIMSS (Third International Math and Science Study) identified the
challenge: once American students reach middle school, they begin
to fall behind the students of many other countries in mathematical
understanding and achievement. This series helps teachers close that
gap and involve students in their own learning.
New
American Schools: Getting Better by Design
Great
schools don’t happen by accident. They happen by design. This nine-part
workshop examines New American Schools, a leader in the growing national
movement known as "comprehensive school reform," and its Design Teams,
which each bring a unique vision to helping schools raise the achievement
of all students.
Principles
for Principals:
This workshop, in cooperation with the Annenberg Institute for School
Reform at Brown University, focuses on the crucial role that principals
play in fostering change to improve student achievement. The series
helps principals gain the knowledge and skills they need to work effectively
with parents, teachers, and other administrators to make their vision
of education a reality.
Private
Universe Projects in Mathematics:
Research shows that children formulate extraordinarily interesting
and complex mathematical ideas, even at very young ages. This series
investigates the power of student ideas and explores how mathematics
teaching can be structured to resonate with children’s sophisticated
thinking.
Private
Universe Project in Science
This innovative teacher workshop expands on the concepts presented
in the original A Private Universe, which documented that even after
years of “the best education that money can buy,” many students had
inaccurate and inconsistent ideas about basic science. The workshop
explores the reasons why teaching science is so difficult and gives
practical advice about how to make teaching more effective ... and
to help students really learn. Each workshop video focuses on one
theme and one content area and uses specific examples to show how
students’ preconceived ideas can create critical barriers to learning.
The
Science of Teaching Science
The goal of this workshop is to provide motivation, encouragement,
a variety of models, and support for K-12 teachers who want to explore
ways of changing how they teach science. Using video clips that take
us into a broad range of classrooms, audiences are provided an opportunity
to view how some teachers are approaching the teaching of science.
Shedding
Light on Science
This workshop uses light as a theme through which to explore topics
in physics, chemistry, biology, Earth science, and space science.
Unlike most science content courses that approach subject matter through
one narrow discipline, these workshops show how light is a common
thread that runs through many areas of science. The workshops make
connections to real-world phenomena as they explore the behavior of
light, the transformation of energy, and the role of light in plant
production of food, weather and the seasons, and more.
